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Diddy’s attorney Brian Steel showed the jury the resume Mia presented before she was hired as Diddy’s personal assistant.

Mia said on the resume that she had previously ‘handled all unique requests’ for Mike Myers. She said she once set up ‘a private and confidential tour of the CIA by corresponding with Secret Service agents and government officials.’

Mia told the court last week that she worked for Myers – as well as Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife Georgina Chapman – before she was employed by Diddy.

The Canadian comedian toured the CIA’s museum and had lunch with some agents, telling them he was grateful for their service.

Myers also paid tribute to his mother during his visit; she was in the British Royal Air Force during World War II and held a security clearance.

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‘You joined the Metoo money grab against Sean Combs?’ Diddy’s attorney asked Mia as he suggested her motivations for her claims were financial.

‘You knew Ms Ventura by making this claim against Mr Combs in nov 2023 you knew she wsa seeking money?’ Steel went on.

‘You were aware that before you made any claim Sean Combs sexually assaulted you that Ms Ventura received money?’

Mia replied that she was aware that Cassie received a settlement after filing a lawsuit against Diddy in 2023.

After Diddy’s ‘freak off’ hotel nights with Cassie, Mia testified that assistants would have to ‘sweep’ hotel rooms to clean up the mess he left behind ‘wherever he was.’

This was so ‘a housekeper couldn’t take and run to TMZ and expose any of his private business.’

Mia alleged the hotel rooms were a ‘nightmare’ to clean.

‘They were destroyed, really messy,’ she described.

‘I saw a lot of candlewax that was impossible to get out, lots of wet towels, I’ve seen broken glass, water all over the floor, sometimes blood, oil all over furniture and walls and things.’

When Steel suggested her assault claims were made up, Mia responded: ‘I have never lied in this courtroom and I never will lie in this courtroom. Everything I said is true.’

She said she felt a moral obligation to speak out after others came forward with allegations against Combs.

‘It’s been a long process. I’m untangling things. I’m in therapy,’ Mia said.

Mia remained composed days after testifying Combs forcibly kissed her and molested her at his 40th birthday party soon after she started working for him in 2009, and months later raped her in a guest room at his Los Angeles home.

Diddy’s alleged victim told the jury on Monday that after she stopped working for the mogul in March, 2017, she went on to work for Madonna.

Mia said she did ‘a myriad of things’ for the queen of pop.

‘I was hired to help lead her film division but she also needed help [to] restructure her executive team. It morphed into multiple roles,’ Mia said.

‘I also operated in an assistant-esque capacity.’

Mia added that she worked for Madonna for about eight months, until October of 2019.

Diddy’s attorney Brian Steel has resumed his questioning of the mogul’s former assistant and alleged victim Mia.

The cross-examination has been contentious as Steel has repeatedly suggested Mia is lying about her claims against Diddy.

Capricorn Clark said she was left ‘petrified’ after being brought to an abandoned building in New York and locked in while being questioned about the hip hop mogul’s missing jewelry.

Another time, she claimed Diddy kidnapped her at gunpoint and drove her to a love rival’s house where he intended to shoot the man dead, the court heard.

The extraordinary claims emerged during the testimony of Clark, 46, who repeatedly broke down in tears while describing her nightmarish employment with Diddy.

Through her horrific tenure as Combs’ employee, Mia said how she would tell Diddy she loved him even after the sexual assaults started happening.

‘Oh yeah, that’s how we talked to each other,’ she said.

‘When the dynamic would switch to the best fiend dynamic you’re desperate to keep it they’re because you’re safe.’

Diddy’s defense will continue grilling his former assistant and alleged victim Mia after a lunch break.

Diddy’s alleged victim said on Friday that she stopped working for the mogul in 2016 after he blocked one of the projects she was working on at Revolt.

Mia hired a lawyer to negotiate a severance package, which reportedly enraged Diddy.

Diddy’s right-hand woman Kristina Khorram then told her he ‘couldn’t believe she had stabbed him in the back.’

Mia’s lawyers then made a $10million offer.

She said she felt bad about speaking to the lawyers ‘because I was breaking this idea of confidentiality and I felt like I was betraying [Diddy], like I was telling the secrets. I felt really wrong and shameful for telling on him.’

Mia said she told the lawyers about incidents of violence but not the alleged sexual assaults. ‘I was going to die with that,’ she said about the alleged rapes.

When asked if she would return the money if it means Diddy never did ‘all the things we’ve talked about,’ Mia replied: ‘Absolutely, in a second.’

On Monday, Diddy’s attorney Brian Steel grilled her about why she did not share claims of sexual assault at the time.

‘Until you got a lawyer in 2024 you never claimed to anyone Mr Combs sexually violated [you]’ Steel asked.

‘Unless it was to my previous therapist you’re correct,’ Mia replied.

Steel then doubled down, asking Mia: ‘You joined the #MeToo money grab against Sean Combs?’

The disgraced music mogul has kept a poker face as several employees and two alleged victims describe him describe being assaulted and threatened by him.

He showed no reaction in court on Thursday as his ex-assisant Mia emotionally told the court thart he sexually assaulted her several times.

Diddy has continued passing notes to his lawyers as witnesses speak from the stand.

The missing Diddy ‘victim’ who mysteriously vanished during the first week of testimony has haunted his trial ever since.

The woman – referred to only as ‘Victim number 3’ – was scheduled to testify for the prosecution after Cassie Ventura.

Her testimony was going to bolster the prosecution’s case against the beleaguered rapper and support the racketeering charge that Diddy’s team says is completely out of the blue.

When she vanished, there was an onslaught of conspiracy theories coupled with a strategic scramble from the prosecutors.

Before Mia took the stand, prosecutors asked the judge to cut the witness box from the live feed shown in the court’s overflow room.

The judge declined the request, saying there was not enough space and the overflow room ‘is an extension of this room.’

However, the judge ruled that there be no cameras or cellphones to document her appearance in any way.

Mia’s lawyer, Michael Ferrara, said his client would tell about the worst things ever to happen to her.

Those things, he said, she otherwise would have taken ‘to her grave.’

The A-list celebrities came up as Diddy’s defense attorneys cross-examined his former employee and alleged victim Mia.

The defense showed the jury a text from August, 2020, where Mia writes to Diddy about the good times they shared together – years after she stopped working for him.

Mia wrote: ‘Love you too and the only things to remember are the good times and those are the only memories I have.

‘Ha ha ha like fu****g HYSTERICAL ones…so many magical hilarious things like drinking 1942 on the Parrot Cay beach and champagne under the Eiffel Tower at 4am…

‘and Mick Jagger trying to take me home and I ran away….Leo [DiCaprio] grabbed my pink bedazzled blackberry and you said: “that titanic motherf****r doesnt know s**t, he won 10K, I won 85k”… HAHAHAHAHAHA.’

The defense has grilled Mia on why she continued to send loving messages to Diddy after he allegedly sexually assaulted her for years.

Diddy [front center] and Leonardo DiCaprio [back center] pose for pictures at Combs’ White Party in 1998.

During a sidebar with the judge, prosecutor Comey has demanded that Diddy’s lawyer Brian Steel change his ‘humiliating’ line of questioning, arguing he is harassing Mia.

‘Mr Steel has yelled at this witness… been sarcastic, argumentative by injecting his own views…saying things that suggest to this jury he believes she’s lying,’ Comey said in court.

‘Meanwhile….this witness is having to have picked apart social media post after social media post…

‘At this point….all of these exhibits are crossing the threshold into harassing this witness. Given the tone, the questions, the number of exhibits which are cumulative we do not think it is appropriate to continue this line of questioning.’

Comey added that ‘[Mia has] carried herself with remarkable dignity and grace’ and the questioning is ‘adding to her trauma.’

However, the judge disagreed that Steel’s questioning was out of line.

‘I have not heard any yelling from Mr Steel. I have not heard anything that was sarcastic..

‘I don’t see the witness has been treated in an improper way,’ Judge Arun Subramanian ruled.

Diddy’s defense attorney Brian Steel is seen arriving to court on Monday.

One of the exotic dancers – known also as The Punisher, who took part in the horrific ‘freak offs’ with Diddy and his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura – has published a best-selling book about his inability to function properly in the bedroom.

In Search of Freezer Meat, written by Sharay Hayes, explores the topic of erectile dysfunction and has soared to number one in Amazon’s ‘Male Impotence’ category -thanks in part to his recent courtroom testimony at Diddy’s trial and repeated references to the infamous ‘Freak Off’ sessions in the book.

The book, which includes a six-page description of his sordid encounters with the hip-hop mogul and Ventura, has beat out other more established titles in the genre including one from the Mayo Clinic.

Several witnesses have said on the stand that Diddy’s friend Damion Butler, known as D-Roc, was one of the people making sure the mogul always got what he wanted.

The court has heard that D-Roc and his wife were some of the people who usually got Cassie to come back to Diddy after incidents of violence.

D-Roc gained notoriety as the right-hand man of the late rap legend Biggie Smalls.

On Friday, Mia said that D-Roc called her at the end of November 2023 to discuss the violence between Cassie and Diddy after Cassie filed her civil lawsuit against the mogul.

After what Mia initially thought to be a normal phone call between her and D-Roc, he started to say ‘you know Puff and Cass they would fight like a normal couple.’

She explained: ‘My radar went off I was like that’s not how D-Roc talks and D-Roc was around that a lot.’

‘He sounded nervous and was talking in circles saying the same idea and said “your boy Puff he misses you.” We were reminiscing about old family and he started talking about old people who were around, as though the agreed with the same sentiment, as though they were a normal couple who fought.’

After the phone call, Mia testified that she ignored several more phone call attempts from both D-Roc and Diddy as she felt terrified, threatened and scared.

On Feb 4th, 2024, Diddy consequently texted her:

‘Hey I don’t wanna be blowing up your phone. Just needed to talk to you for 10 minutes. Just need my memory jogged on some things. You were my right hand for years so I just to speak to you to remember who was even around me.’

When pressed on why she did not discuss her claims of sexual assault with Diddy or anyone else, Mia said she was ‘stil brainwashed’ years after leaving the mogul’s employment.

When askes who brainwashed her, she replied: ‘Puff.’

I was in an environment where the highs were really high and the lows were really low which created a huge confusion in me trusting my instincts.

I was punished whenever Puff would be violent and I’d react, confusing me and making me believe I’d done something wrong.

I’d try so hard to get back to that good space and work harder and be nicer and nobody around batted an eye. He was still praised by everyone around him and the public.

Mia sais she felt guilt about hiring lawyers shen she stopped working for Diddy.

I felt like I had done something horrific, like I’d betrayed him by going to mediation and I felt horrible about it. I’d done something wrong and was always constantly seeking his approval. He was my authority figure.

Quincy Brown and Justin Combs arrived at Manhattan federal court on Monday to suport the disgraced music mogul.

They have been present for most days of the sex-trafficking trial.

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey has said her team is running ahead of schedule and even looking to cut some witnesses.

The prosecution is hoping to rest their case by the second week of June, but noted it may continue into the following week.

The judge has said the trial should wrap up by July 4th.

Diddy’s attorney Brian Steel is taking a notably confrontational approach to Mia on Monday.

Steel is confronting Mia with loving messages she sent Diddy after he allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

‘Explain besides just saying psychology when you’re reaching out to Mr Combs when you’re painting this picture of how he ruined your life,’ Steel fired at Mia when she tried explaining why she continued reaching out to Diddy.

Convicted child sex offender R. Kelly came up in Mia’s testimony as Diddy’s lawyers had her read a text she sent to him in January, 2019 – two years after she left Diddy’s employment.

The text from Mia to Diddy read: ‘Just thinking of you today and every day….I had a nightmare I was trapped in an elevator with R Kelly. I screamed and you came to rescue me.’

Defense attorney Brian Steel then asked Mia: ‘The person who sexually assaulted you came to your rescue?

The mogul’s ex-assistant Mia told the court on Thursday that Diddy would sometimes get high at ‘inappropriate’ times, including board meetings and one chaotic Chelsea Lately appearance.

‘Like one time was a board meeting, one time was going to the Chelsea Handler show,’ she told the jury.

‘There were just a few times where I was like “Oh, gosh when am I going to have to pull him to the side and say you look a little crazy at the moment.”‘

Mia did not specify when exactly the interview with Handler took place, but Diddy’s 2010 appearance on the E! show made headlines for his bizarre behavior.

Chelsea told the audience Diddy was an hour late before the rapper offered to ‘pull out his shlong’ when the comedianne kept jokingly referring to him as ‘girl.’

At the time, Vulture reported Diddy appeared drunk.

The mogul’s family, including his mother Janice, has remained supportive of him, attending the trial on most days.

His daughters attended the first week but have stayed away since then.

Diddy’s mother Janice is pictured on Monday.

The mogul’s ex-employee has been mentioned about a dozen times by various witnesses who have taken the stand in the trial, and prosecutors claim she was kidnapped twice by Diddy or his bodyguards.

Clark took the stand against Diddy and said she was emotionally and physically abused by the mogul for years.

Mia told the court that she was first sexually assaulted by Diddy during his 40th birthday party in 2009 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, which was attended by many celebrities like Bono, Denzel Washington, Kim Kardashian, Gayle King and Al Sharpton.

She said the mogul approached her in the kitchen and complimented her on her work before pouring shots for her.

‘I felt like they hit me kind of hard,’ she said of the drinks.

‘I was in my 20s in New York. Two shots would not have made me feel that way.’

Mia told the jury what happened next: ‘He was talking and all of a sudden his face [was] far closer, my eyes couldn’t focus on his face because it was so close.

‘I didn’t really know what was happening… he put his am next to my head against the wall and leaned in to kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress.’

Mia said she did not want to kiss Diddy or have his hand up her dress.

‘I was shocked and I froze. I didn’t even process what was happening,’ she added.

The next morning, she woke up clothed on a chair in the mainroom of the penthouse Diddy had rented.

Mia worked for Combs from 2009 to 2017, including a stretch as an executive at his film studio. However, she said she hasn’t held a job since then because of post-traumatic stress.

Mia said she would misinterpret emails asking ‘where are you?’ as scolding because of how Combs treated her. She said someone calling her name would cause her alarm, even if it was an innocent attempt to get her attention.

She recalled throwing her phone across a room in terror when Combs’ number popped up as an incoming call days after his former girlfriend, singer Cassie, sued him in November 2023.

‘It was just so triggering,’ Mia said.

After leaving Combs’ employment, Mia said, she received a little more than $200,000 of a $400,000 settlement to reimburse her for bonuses and overtime that weren’t paid. The rest, she said, went to her lawyers, whom she never told about the alleged sexual assaults.

Diddy’s former assistant and alleged victim Mia has taken the stand to resume her testimony on Monday.

Defense attorney Brian Steel will continue questioning her in an effort to discredit her testimony.

The defense has argued Mia is putting up an act and has shown the court her social media posts where she speaks lovingly of Diddy.

The jaw-dropping images showed the guns, drugs, industrial quantities of ‘freak off’ paraphernalia and boxes of women’s high heels that were seized by investigators from Combs’ $40 million home on the ultra-exclusive Star Island.

Jurors heard from a Los Angeles police officer who responded to the December 2011 break-in at Cudi’s home and an arson investigator who spoke about his efforts to solve the firebombing of Cudi’s Porsche 911 weeks later.

Officer Chris Ignacio said he found Christmas gifts, some opened, with luxury watches and purses. Cudi has testified that his dog was traumatized after being locked in a bathroom by intruders.

Ignacio said he saw a car with tinted windows registered to Bad Boy outside the house but didn’t approach it because he had no proof a crime had occurred.

Prosecutors are trying to prove that Combs was behind the break-in and the subsequent firebombing, which involved a Molotov cocktail dropped through a hole sliced in the convertible’s fabric roof.

Lance Jimenez, a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator, said the explosive was made from a 40-ounce Olde English 800 malt liquor bottle and a silky designer handkerchief.

‘I personally felt it was targeted,’ he said of the Jan. 9, 2012, attack.

On Friday, Judge Arun Subramanian admonished Diddy’s attorney after they tried to sumbit last-minute video evidence to discredit Mia’s testimony that Diddy horribly abused her for years.

The defense introduced a video that showed Mia wishing Diddy a happy birthday in 2013. They said it would show the jury that ‘her affect on the stand is an act.’

‘We found this video on the internet,’ lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo told the judge.

‘I think there were people on the internet who figured out who Mia is…. we received emails from random people with the same video.’

But the judge denied the request of the defense in a stern tone saying they violated the rules to submit evidence.

‘Court’s order is very clear, if you don’t turn over those exhibits you need to establish good cause,’ he said.

‘If someone sent this to you at 1am yesterday that’s something but if you had this video in your possession for the past week, two weeks and you only decided to produce it now that’s a different story. I don’t think you’ve thought through this,’ the judge added.

However, the judge allowed the video as evidence on Monday.

‘Thank you for calling the Sean P Diddy Combs abuse helpline. This call is being recorded.’

This is the first thing that up to 40 people a week are hearing when they ring the Montana-based call center fielding legal complaints from alleged victims of the embattled music mogul.

‘We understand the strength and courage it takes to come forward,’ the message continues. ‘Any information you provide will be kept completely confidential, but we expect full honesty in order to properly assist you with your potential case.’

Andrew Van Arsdale, CEO of Reciprocity Industries, which runs the hotline, told the Daily Mail that the volume of calls has surged since the start of Diddy’s sex trafficking, racketeering, and assault trial in New York.

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Crystal McKinney has filed separate lawsuits against both men in a New York federal court, accusing them of sexually assaulting her as she tried to break into the industry in 2003.

Diddy has entered the Manhattan courtroom on Monday.

He appears calm and is drumming on the table with his fingers as evidentiary issues are discussed.

Diddy is allowed to wear his own clothes to the trial but with some conditions.

He can only have up to five pairs of pants, shirts and socks and only two pairs of shoes – with no laces.

Amid the disgraced rap mogul’s federal sex-trafficking trial, which began earlier this month, the actor, 57, poked fun at the rumors that swirled around his road to recovery after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke and a brain bleed in 2023.

While reflecting on his hospitalization, which lasted several weeks, the comedian revealed he ‘snuck in’ his phone because he had no idea ‘what the outside world was saying.’

Trump revealed last week he would ‘look at the facts’ of the case, noting he and rapper used to have a friendly relationship.

The president added: ‘If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact.’

One of last week’s biggest developments came outside the courtroom. Cassie, 38, delivered her third child less than two weeks after testifying for four days as the prosecution’s prize witness.

The news of her son’s birth Tuesday reached the jury the next day when Cassie’s longtime stylist, Deonte Nash, testified that he was still close to Cassie and had sent her well wishes after the birth.

Cassie, known for the platinum-selling 2006 hit single ‘Me & U,’ married personal trainer Alex Fine in September 2019 — about a year after breaking up with Combs for good. Their first daughter, Frankie Stone Fine, was born in 2019. They welcomed a second daughter, Sunny Cinco Fine, in 2021.

Trump was asked on Friday if he would pardon his former friend Diddy if he is convicted of sex-trafficking.

First, the president noted that Fox News’ Peter Doocey was the first to ask him the question even though many have been wondering.

‘I know people are thinking about it,’ the president said.

‘First of all, I’d look at what’s happening… I haven’t spoken to him in years. He really liked me a lot.’

‘We need to keep two thoughts in our head at the same time: One, Diddy is a bad dude – really bad. Like, the worst thing in rap since Hammer pants. A violent, sick f*** – I’m sorry, an alleged violent, sick f***. And we should lock him up and throw away the baby oil,’ Maher began.

‘And two, things have changed enough that moving forward, the rule should be, if you’re being abused, you’ve got to leave right away.’

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Diddy’s ex-assistant and alleged victim, who is testifyng under the name ‘Mia,’ will return to the stand on Monday to be cross-examined by the defense.

On Friday, defense lawyers confronted the rape-alleging former personal assistant with her social media posts praising the hip-hop mogul as a mentor, ‘my brother’ and ‘friend for life’ for years after she says he assaulted her.

Mia will be followed by radio personality Enrique Santos and Eddie Garcia, who worked in security at the InterContinental Hotel in LA.

A custodian at the LA hotel and forensic video expert Frank Piazza are expected to follow.

Hollywood icon Brad Pitt was dragged into Diddy’s trial last week when a witness and alleged victim mentioned him from the stand.

Diddy’s former assistant Mia said she once say the music mogul assault Cassie Ventura at the premiere for Pitt’s movie, Killing them Softly, at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

Mia said Cassie and Diddy were in the movie theater talking when the mogul gritted his teeth and started ‘digging his nails into her arms.’

Mia said that while ‘no one ever leaves in the middle of a premiere event,’ Diddy insisted that Cassie leave – which she did.

Diddy and Cassie are seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.